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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05459	Against the apple of the left eye of antichrist, or the masse book of lurking darknesse making way for the apple of the right eye of antichrist, the compleat masse book of palpable darknesse : this apple of the left eye, commonly called, the liturgie, or service book, is in great use both among the halting papists, and compleat papists, and the things written heere are also against the compleat masse book.	Lightbody, George.	1638 (1638)	STC 15591.5; ESTC S2182	52,108	90

prelates the authors and urgers of the oath why may not we also forbeare the practise of the rest Qu. May not subjects make a religious solemne covenant with God with the approbatiō of their civile rulers albeit neither the subjects themselves nor their progenitors have made such a covenant before Ans May not the children of a great man without the libertie and consent of his chamberlane make a solemn covenant and promise of loyall service and obedience to their loving father 〈◊〉 Lord All governors kings and princes are GODS cha●●rlanes the e●ect are Gods children by creation and regeneration they may and should offer service and obedience to their Lord and heavenly Father though all the world be against it Christian magistrats if they be well informed will be the first practisers thereof and cause their subjects do the like 2. Joseph of Arimathea sought libertie of Pilate to burie the body of Jesus but hee sought not libertie to believe in Christ and turn a Christian Moses sought libertie and did supplicat Pharao to let the Israelits go out of Egypt but Pharao re●ected it contemned the messag● GOD without supplication brought his people out with a high hand 3. When Christ called his apostles converted Zicheus Marie Magdalene and others He bad them not seek libertie from any ruler When the 3000 converts received baptisme the seal of the covenant Act 2 they sought not libertie from Pilate nor Caesar Rulers are ordeined of GOD to take care that the people binde themselves by the strictest bands that can be to do such loyall dueties unto GOD and they should not hinder the same 4. Our Lord said Matth. 18.19 If two of you agree on earth touching any thing that you shall ask it shall be done for you and where two or three are gathered together in my name I am in the mids of them shall two or three have greater libertie then many thousands Quest May they make a Covenant of mutuall defence from the injuries of their enemies if their rulers consent notwith them Ans They are false Christians if they be not united God by faith and among themselves by mutuall love The Lord said Iohn 13. A new Commandment I give you that you love one an other c. They neither have Christian love neither can any man know it if it be not expressed in such loving acts and mutuall dueties which men should both swear and performe for these dueties are the righteous judgements and commandments of God The summe of Gods law is the love of God and of our neighbours which is practized in such dueties Psal 119.106 I have sworne and will performe that I will keep thy righteous judgement Qu. Should not men obey their rulers in all things either by doing or suffring whether they cōmand good or evill Ans Yes if a more lawfull cannot be found how to eschew their evill then good lawes should be obeyed actively evill lawes passively But oftimes Christ lawfully fled away from his persecutors so did the Prophets and Apostles Elias had a warrand from God to kill Baals Prophets the people justly hindered King Saul to execute his rash intention in killing Jonathan we should not resist evill in revenging our own particulars for it is a robbing of Gods glory who saith Vengance is mine I will repay But when Gods glory and worship is tred under foot then the zeale of Gods house should consume his servants cheefly when no Magistrat will continuance and assist Gods matters Thus Iesus did scourge the buyers and sellers in the temple Samuell killed king Agag Phineas killed Zimri and Cosbi Samson slew the Philistims Qu. GOD saith honour thy father and mother Ergo we should obey them in all their precepts Ans The scribes and pharisees sat not in the chair of Moses Gods Prophet when they taught against his law so magistrats are not in station of parents but of Gods enemies when they cōmand things contradictory to his word when men then obey them they honour them not as parents but as Gods enemies and thereby they professe themselves to be the children of Gods enemies when men dissobey such precepts they honour their parents because when governors return again unto the true station of parents they will allow and command unlawfull precepts to be dissobeyed But if men suffer by unlawfull judges they should doe it patiently because Christ hath commanded it Qu. Some orthodox fathers approved kneeling and the service book Ergo we should do so Ans Origene said the devils should be saved Tertullian and Hieronymus condemned second marriages Ambrose condemned the children of the faithfull who died unbaptized should we do so because they were orthodox fathers 2. Sundrie councels ordeind kneeling to the sacrament but albeit all councels and fathers had ordeined it seing it hath beene unto mens Soules oftimes deadly evermore hurtfull and never profitable it should bee abolished The like I say of this book 3. Act. 15. the Apostles ordeined the Christians of Antiochia to absteine from meats offred to idols from blood and from things strangled shall we therefore be burdened with these things Some legall rites were permitted to Christians in the new Testament untill they were better instructed and then they would willingly forsake them The ceremoniall law was not smothered down suddanly but it evanished by little little and so it was honourably buried The ark and mercy seat and the Urim and Thumim were abolished before the birth of the Messias for they were not in the second temple FINIS Answers to the censures of some in certaine particulars of this book SOme alleadge that the answeres of the question 33. disswade men to kneele unto Kings and Monarchs because it is said there that kneeling is most proper unto God and that by kneeling God is discerned from all creatures Ans Kneeling and all kinds of honour with their gestures are most proper unto God because he is God Civile adoration and the gestures thereof is a honour that secondarly belongeth unto men because they are inferiour unto God 2. God is discerned from all creatures by kneeling either by itself alone or conjunct●●e with other gestures 1. When some admit other sorts of bowing and adoration but they leave kneeling unto God only 2. When some admit kneeling with one knee leaving unto God kneeling with both the knees 3. When some kneele unto men with their knees cloathed and covered but unto God with naked and bare knees 4. When some with their kneeling unto God conjuctlie hold their faces and hands unto heaven thereby acknowledgeing his glory or with Elias holding their faces on the earth acknowledging their owne unworthinesse 5. When some kneeling unto men doe but touch the earth and suddainly they rise up againe but they continue a long time kneeling unto God at prayer and thanksgiving 6. When some kneele unto men only 〈◊〉 they seeke a great benefite or deliverance but unto God alwayes in their dayly worship All gestures